About the Series About this Volume PART I. THE AWAKENING : THE COMPLETE TEXT Introduction: Biographical and Historical Contexts The Complete Text [The 1969 Seyersted Edition] New Cultural Documents New Two Contemporary Reviews of The Awakening : From "Recent Novels" ( The Nation 69, 3 August 1899, 96) From "Books of the Week" ( Providence Sunday Journal, 4 June 1899, 15) New Two Principles in Recent American Fiction, James Lane Allen ( The Altantic Monthly , October 1897) New Home Study for Young Ladies: Visiting Cards (from Collier''s Cyclopedia of Commercial and Social Information and Treasury of Entertaining Knowledge , 1887) New The Dressing-Table New Advertisements from Women''s Magazines Lablanche Face Powder ( Ladies Home Journal, August 1899) Braided Wire Bristles and Forms ( Ladies Home Journal, May 1899) Ferris''s Good Sense Corset Waists: When Beauty Reigns ( Harper''s Magazine, January 1899) The Whitely Exerciser ( Ladies Home Journal, December 1896) New Fashion Plates from Women''s Magazines Plate No. 7 ( Godey''s Magazine, January 1897) Plate No. 6 ( Godey''s Magazine, March 1897) Plate No. 7 ( Godey''s Magazine, August 1897) New A People Who Live Amid Romance, Ruth McEnery Stuart, ( Ladies Home Journal , December 1896) New The Artist and Marriage ( The Atlantic Monthly , January 1899) New What It Means to Be a Wife, Helen Watterson Moody, ( Ladies Home Journal , March 1899) New The True Meaning of Motherhood, Helen Watterson Moody, ( Ladies Home Journal , May 1899) New What Women Find to Do all Day ( Ladies Home Journal , April 1899) New The Evolution of Woman in the South, Walter Gregory, ( Godey''s Magazine , October 1897) PART II. THE AWAKENING : A CASE STUDY IN CONTEMPORARY CRITICISM A Critical History of The Awakening Feminist Criticism and The Awakening What Is Feminist Criticism? Feminist Criticism: A Selected Bibliography A Feminist Perspective: Elaine Showalter, Tradition and the Female Talent: The Awakening as a Solitary Book Gender Criticism and The Awakening What Is Gender Criticism? Gender Criticism: A Selected Bibliography A Gender Perspective: New Elizabeth LeBlanc, The Metaphorical Lesbian: Edna Pontellier in The Awakening New Historicism and The Awakening What Is New Historicism? New Historicism: A Selected Bibliography A New Historicist Perspective: Margit Stange, Personal Property: Exchange Value and the Female Self in The Awakening Deconstruction and The Awakening What Is Deconstruction? Deconstruction: A Selected Bibliography A Deconstructionist Perspective: Patricia S. Yaeger, "A Language Which Nobody Understood": Emancipatory Strategies in The Awakening Reader-Response and The Awakening What Is Reader-Response Criticism? Reader-Response Criticism: A Selected Bibliography A Reader-Response Perspective: Paula A. Treichler, The Construction of Ambiguity in The Awakening: A Linguistic Analysis New Combining Critical Perspectives: Cynthia Griffin Wolff, Un-utterable Longing: The Discourse of Feminine Sexuality in Kate Chopin''s The Awakening Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms About the Contributors